Abraham be Abraham, the young convert to Judaism who until recently was the Polish priest Simone, denied here that it was love for a Jewish girl that prompted his conversion.
Discussing his plans with newspaper men here, Abraham be Abraham said he will go to Lublin where he will attend the famous yeshiva. Later he plans to go to Palestine.
Asked whether he was descended from Jews, the former priest said his parents were both Christian but that his grandfather, a pea#ant, might have had Jewish blood for so the village had gossiped.
The young convert revealed the he had begun his studies at the theological seminary at Krakow in 1920. Five years later he had experienced a change of heart, by it was not until 1927 that he was given permission by Rome to give up his priesthood. At that time however, he still had no though of becoming a Jew. This step ### decided to take in 1930. Jews a tempted to dissuade him from su### a course, explaining that the pa### of the Jew is beset by trouble.
“I know and have always know how hard it is to be a Jew,” Abraham ben Abraham stated. “B### I am prepared to suffer with t## rest of them.”
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